Cameraman Roger hopes it will be 10th time lucky at Oscars awards

TORQUAY cameraman Roger Deakins will find out on Sunday if it will be 10th time lucky for him at the Oscars.

He has received his 10th Academy Award nomination for best cinematography on the James Bond film Skyfall.

Mr Deakins (pictured), who is an old boy of Torquay Boys' Grammar School and has a home in Kingswear, was also nominated for a BAFTA award for Skyfall. That award went to Claudio Miranda for Life of Pi.

Mr Deakins has previously been Oscar-nominated for The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, Kundun, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Man Who Wasn't There, No Country For Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Reader and True Grit.